Given what Bolton (1995: 8) wrote concerning
the accuracy of the classification into Tribes and, as keys usually
provide for separation of families, genera or species, I have decided
to give the following list of Tribes within Subfamilies at this point
and to omit that level hereafter. All the presently recognised living
subfamilies are given even though some are not known from Africa.
Following the layout used by Bolton in both works, the organisation of
this guide uses simple alphabetical order through each of the levels.

June 2005 - having accessed Bolton's "Synopsis and
Classification of Formicidae" [B Bolton, 2003. Memoirs of the
American Entomological Insitiute, 71, 1-370.], which
purports to clarify and modernise the understanding of ant subfamilies,
I find the situation in some aspects even more confusing. Thus, I
continue to restrict the use of Tribes to this point. I have added the
new divisions in Red font (Bolton, 2003).

Family FORMICIDAE -

formicomorph subfamilies

Subfamily ANEURETINAE - Tribe
Aneuretini, one living genus and species from Sri Lanka.